Fucking Traitors Musk & Trump Are Openly Working To Collapse The Economy

Nothing they're doing makes sense unless the goal is a massive recession.

This is it. This is Germany in the 1930s and what you do will be recorded in the history books. Your children and grandchildren will look back and ask what you did. Will you be able to look them in the face?

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There are some crucial differences between the Republican fascists trying to topple the American Constitution and the Nazi fascists that toppled the Weimer Republic almost a century ago. Back in the 1920s and 30s, Germany’s economy was on the brink of collapse and the Nazis used that to rise to power. They “restored” the economy (by crushing unions and seizing control of everything) and then waged war on the world.

Today’s white nationalist fascists in the GOP did not rise to power on the back of economic distress. Not really. Inflation had spiked across the globe in the wake of Covid but in the United States, we had long gotten it under control. Prices were still high but they were dropping and wages had been rising almost the entirety of President Biden’s four years. Job growth was beyond anything we had ever seen in this country outside of wartime. Manufacturing was up. Unions were gaining strength.¹ The American economy was leaps and bounds ahead of every other advanced economy in the world.

Naturally, the American voter handed the keys over to Republicans, again, who have proven for the last century to be utterly inept stewards and this time will be no different.

One would think that after literally generations of Republicans crashing the economy, voters would figure it out. Maybe watching Elon Musk and Donald Trump throw the country into a massive recession within six months might finally penetrate the thick skulls of very stupid people. Because that’s where we’re headed. And it’s all on purpose.

Oh, I fucking said it. Everything these two fucking imbeciles are doing is deliberate steps designed to crash the economy as hard as possible, as quickly as possible.

Now, do I think Musk and Trump are behind this all on their own? No. Neither of them are smart enough. Trump is a moron suffering from severe cognitive failure. He literally does not understand how tariffs work. He likes the word because it’s easy to remember.

Musk is smart in a limited field of things. Computer programming from 25-30 years ago. How to lie and cheat at business. How to take credit for other people’s accomplishments. How to appeal to white nationalists. How to sound like a teenager whose mother never loved him and has never had a real friend in his life.

Neither Trump nor Musk are smart enough to understand how to crash the United States economy except in the most ham-fisted way.

But the people around know how to do it. All of the executive orders Trump has been signing have been prepared for him by Project 2025 authors like Russ Vought and billionaires like Scott Bessent. Trump doesn’t know what he’s signing or why.

Musk is targeting the parts of the government he’s been told threaten his business interests. USAID was investigating Starlink. The CFPB would have regulated Twitter’s plans to be a bank and crypto scam site. Musk wants to cripple the FDIC for the same reason. And I promise you, the SEC will be shut down sometime in the next couple of weeks. All the watchdogs that can protect the public from reckless financial gambling are going to be closed.

No one does that unless they’re planning to crash the economy.

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It’s important to understand that Republicans control these agencies. There’s no need to shut them down if the person running it can simply block any investigation into whatever Republican shenanigans are happening. This is how business was carried out during the first Trump regime. Republicans would commit crimes and the federal government would look the other way.

But shutting them down? Crippling them? Completely erasing these agencies and getting rid of their staff? That has a different purpose.

If they’re gone, they can’t respond in an emergency. And that’s the point.

Let’s put it this way: If you are dumbfuck enough to elect an arsonist as mayor of your town and said arsonist closes the fire department and shuts off the water supply, it doesn’t take a genius to figure out that someone is about to start some fires. Actually, they’re going to start ALL the fires and you get to stand there and watch your little town burn because you were so fucking stupid you thought the arsonist, who literally ran on a platform of being an arsonist, would be great for business because he promised to only burn down the houses of the people you didn’t like.

Jesus fucking Christ, you are so unbelievably fucking stupid, America.

Look at what they are doing.

• The tariffs are already pushing American businesses to cut back spending and raise prices and that’s BEFORE the tariffs are even implemented. Jobs are being lost as a result.

• The illegal freeze of government money is costing tens of thousands of jobs outside the government as billions are cut off to farmers, manufacturers, construction, hospitals, schools, etc. etc.

• With over 2.28 million federal employees no longer sure if they'll have a job tomorrow, they are cutting back on spending. Large purchases are being put on hold. Vacations canceled. Money saved instead of spent. That money being pulled out of the economy has knock-on effects, forcing businesses to cut back on hiring and hours, pushing the economy into a downward spiral.

Normally, when the economy starts to stall, the federal government steps in and spends to nudge it back in the right direction. I’ll get to this in a bit, but I promise you, that will be the last thing Musk and Trump will do. Everything they are doing is what any economist would tell you NOT to do unless you wanted to fuck up a perfectly healthy economy.

So! Why would Musk and his puppet Trump and their fellow billionaire scumbags want to crash the strongest economy in the world? Shouldn’t they want to make it stronger and reap the benefits of all of that global power?

Don’t be a fool. They don’t give a fuck about this country or its place in the world. “America first” is a slogan for the rubes. What Republicans mean when they say “America first” is that America is the first country they plan to rape before moving on to rape the rest. Or did you think Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was because Putin was bored? Nah. He’s squeezed about all he can from his own husk of a nation and now he wants more. The greed of oligarchs is limitless. Always has been. Always will be.

So, again, why crash a thriving economy that is producing massive amounts of wealth? Multiple reasons.

1. Pure greed: This is the simplest and most obvious. Every time the economy crashes, the rich get richer. Companies merge. Billionaires buy massive amounts of distressed assets for pennies on the dollar. Whatever minor loss to the stock market the rich experience is nothing compared to the wealth they accumulate at our expense.

2. Crush the public’s ability to resist: Another fairly obvious and simple outcome desired by the rich. When the economy is strong for too long, the public gets uppity. Sustained wage growth and a hot job market lead to stuff like “the Grea Resignation” and business owners whining about how “no one wants to work anymore.” Actually, you fucking cockbite, no one wants to work for your shitty slave wages at your shitty job for a shitty boss.
   
   But when the economy is bad and jobs are scarce, the rich have the power. And they always want more.

3. Cover to gut the social safety net: By the summer, the word “austerity” is going to be everywhere. Count on it. This is what I was talking about before. The multi-trillion dollar tax cut Republicans are going to pass in the next month or so will not produce a single job but, gee whiz!, America will have to “tighten its belt” to deal with the spiraling economic crisis.

   
   That means we’ll be “forced” to cut Social Security and Medicare. Oh no no no! We can’t raise taxes on the rich! We need those tax cuts to produce jobs. Well, no, it didn’t work last time. Or the time before that. Or ever. And it doesn’t appear to be doing a fucking thing THIS time, either, but taxation is theft you fucking peasant! And you don’t deserve the Social Security you’ve been paying into your entire adult life! Don’t you know the rich NEED that money to gamble with?! God! Stop whining!
   
   It’s really important to understand that the legacy press will refuse to talk about the fact the coming crash will be completely and inarguably due to the actions and policies of the GOP. They’ll blame “Congress” and “Washington” but never once discuss how Trump and Musk took the strongest economy in half a century and drove it off a cliff at 100 MPH. It just…happened. Oh well!

4. Fascism: During an emergency, freedoms have to be suspended. The greater the emergency, the more freedoms have to be taken away. Protests against the regime while the economy is failing? I dunno…maybe we have to make those illegal. Voting? I mean, can we REALLY hold an election in the middle of an economic collapse?! Maybe we need to delay it until we get things under control a decade or so from now…

   
   Yeah…fascists LOVE declaring “emergencies” and granting themselves lots of emergency powers. And the emergency never seems to end. Ever.

If you’re still not sure if Trump and Musk are trying to annihilate the economy, here’s Donald Trump suggesting we don’t have to pay back our debts:

He continued: “We’re even looking at Treasuries. There could be a problem … with Treasuries. And that could be an interesting problem because it could be that a lot of those things don’t count. In other words, that some of that stuff that we’re finding is very fraudulent. Therefore, maybe we have less debt than we thought of.”

Musk swears they’re actually talking about money going out to fraudulent Social Security recipients. But you know what? That’s bullshit. Trump has talked about this before. He claimed he would “renegotiate our debt” and force countries to accept pennies on the dollar. It’s how he’s stolen millions from banks over the years who were stupid enough to lend him money.

The American Dollar is the foundation of the world’s economy. Countries buy our debt even during our recessions because we are the safest place to put money in the world. We have never not honored our obligations. It’s literally unconstitutional to do so! But if you want to crash the economy? And send the world economy into a tailspin, permanently damaging the dollar? This is how you would do it.

And, hey! Who benefits the most from undermining the Dollar? Fintech² cryptobros like Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and all the Silicon Valley fascists in bed with them. Replacing the Dollar with crypto controlled by unaccountable billionaires has been the explicit purpose of cryptocurrency from its inception. And here’s a bunch of billionaires who are sabotaging the Dollar!

What a fucking coincidence.

We need to understand not only what is being done but WHY. The press can’t even bring itself to call it a coup. They have never once been able to tell the truth about Republicans crashing the economy even when we could all see it happening. We are now facing a level of economic sabotage that is so overt it’s impossible to explain away as incompetence. This is a deliberate act of vandalism so the billionires can carve up the country and leave us with nothing.

Bloody revolutions have started for less.

There are 48 days until the first Blue Wave starts in Wisconsin and 265 days until it hits Virginia and Pennsylvania. If I were a billionaire fascist, I’d think REALLY hard about getting out of the way.

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1. Ironically, because job growth was so rapid, unions as a percent of the labor force declined but they were still growing faster than they had in decades, something the legacy press made sure to overlook.

2. “Financial Technology” - I learned a new word today! I knew this was happening. I just didn’t know there was a phrase for it.